{
  "place_id": "mezhyrichchia#7887_11266",
  "wikidata": "Q34267",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Międzyrzec Podlaski",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Międzyrzec Podlaski",
      "why": "Polish official Latin-script name, retained in English in its native spelling.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Miedzyrzec Podlaski",
          "why": "Diacritic-free Polish name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Międzyrzec",
          "why": "Common short Polish name, ambiguous without the Podlasie context."
        },
        {
          "name": "Miedzyrzec",
          "why": "Unaccented short form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Mezritch",
          "why": "Yiddish historical name used in English Jewish histories; requires disambiguation from Ukrainian Mezhyrich."
        },
        {
          "name": "Mezrich",
          "why": "Alternative English spelling of the Jewish historical name."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Międzyrzec Podlaski",
      "why": "Same as in English; retain this spelling in French. No separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Międzyrzec",
          "why": "Short Polish name in French histories of the Jewish community."
        },
        {
          "name": "Mezritch",
          "why": "Jewish historical name in French memorial writing; distinguish from Mezhyrich in Ukraine."
        },
        {
          "name": "Miedzyrzec",
          "why": "Accent-free short form in French indexes."
        },
        {
          "name": "Miedzyrzec Podlaski",
          "why": "Accent-free search form for French keyboards and older indexes; preserve the native letters in edited French."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Międzyrzec Podlaski is a town in Lublin Voivodeship on the Krzna River. Its trading history includes a large Jewish community whose presence is recalled by surviving memorial sites.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "The input Ukrainian label Межиріччя is not the Polish local name. The full Polish name distinguishes it from Międzyrzecz in western Poland. Input label is Ukrainian or indirect; local_name gives the native spelling.",
  "rank": 635,
  "slug": "miedzyrzec-podlaski"
}